The Function of Lines

1. Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, by 1980 [Washington D.C. 1980 exh. cat]. The Elkon Gallery, New York. Alain Tarica, Paris. Annely Juda Fine Art, London, by 1984 [London 1984 exh. cat.]; sold to Edward Hirschland (born 1948), Chicago, May 1987; sold Christie’s, New York, May 10, 2007, lot 175, to Jan Krugier (1928–2008), Geneva; sold, Christie’s, New York, Nov. 5, 2013, lot 185, to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, L’Art Mural, 1936.
• Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1980; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1980; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980; A Traveling Retrospective Exhibition: Georges Vantongerloo, 1980–81, cat. 90 (titled Fonction de lignes).
• London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Dada—Constructivism: The Janus Face of the Twenties, 1984, cat. 146 (color ill.).
• London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Twenty-Five Years: Masterpieces of the Avantgarde, 1985, p. 172, cat. 47.
• London, Annely Juda Fine Art and Juda Rowan Gallery, From Figuration to Abstraction, 1986, p. 111, cat. 58.
• New York, Rachel Adler Gallery, Cercle et Carré: Thoughts for the 1930s, 1990, cat. 31 (ill.).
• New York, Jan Krugier Gallery in collaboration with Richard L. Feigen and Co., Drawing in Space, 2007–8, cat. 40 (color ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, pp. 88-89, cat. 32, p. 144, GC 121.

• Jan Ceuleers and Georges Vantongerloo, Georges Vantongerloo, 1886–1965, exh. cat. (Snoeck-Ducaju and Zoon, 1996), p. 136 (color ill., as Fonction noir, rouge).

Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid

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Curving Function Greenish Brown

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Facade Elevation Study for "Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid" 

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Plan Overview Study for "Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid" 

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Right Side (Proper) Elevation Study for "Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid" 

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Rear Elevation Study for "Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid" 

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Left Side (Proper) Elevation Study for "Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid" 

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Étude No. 1

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